Onward Debates: Will Hockey Overtake Basketball in Popularity? – Onward State

Onward Debates: Will Hockey Overtake Basketball in Popularity?

The hierarchy of sports at Penn State has remained unchanged for quite some time: Football has always been king in Happy Valley, with basketball a distant second. However, the Penn State sports landscape might change for good this season as an arena full of Penn State hockey fans are unleashed at Pegula Ice Arena. The men’s hockey team has every opportunity to finally push the basketball team to third on the totem pole, but is a new stadium and a piqued interest in the program enough to give hockey the silver?

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